mistyoptic
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Recommended by the manufacturer who want to sell you more? How big is your room?
We have a viewing distance of 4m and find 48" is plenty. I guess it's down to personal taste
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Recommended by the manufacturer who want to sell you more? How big is your room?
We have a viewing distance of 4m and find 48" is plenty. I guess it's down to personal taste
cougie uk
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How far away are you from the TV ?
figbat
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My (limited) undertanding of these is that they still connect to the TV with a cable (HDMI, optical, whatever) but also have the ability for a phone or other device to connect via Bluetooth to use it as an external speaker. Also many come with a subwoofer that is connected via Bluetooth to the main speaker.
Or maybe I missed or misunderstood something.
figbat
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When I were a lad an 18" telly was enormous - I grew up peering at a 14"er across the living room.
65" does seem huge though - we have a 50" and a 43" in two different rooms and despite having had them a while they still come across as big!
figbat
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Here's quite a nice TV/distance calculator and some 'science' behind it. It seems our TVs are scientifically undersized! 😲
cougie uk
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Pfffft we all know that Big Telly is the shadowy figure behind THAT calculator ! ;-)
I'm sure it won't be long before you can replace your windows with a huge TV. Have a HD camera on the outside so you can look out if you want, and the rest of the time there's no annoying daylight to spoil watching Neighbours in glorious UHD.
Mo1959
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I’ve got 65” and wish I had gone 77”. The bigger the better for me.
cougie uk
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Do you ever go to the cinema or can you not take their small screens ?
roubaixtuesday
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A neighbour across the street has a TV about that size. We can see it quite comfortably if they leave their curtains open.
Go for (proper) OLED if budget doesn't constrain you too much, and personally I'd go for a slightly smaller OLED screen over a larger LCD at the same price.
We have a 48" Hisense OLED, from a Costco bargain last Feb (£599!) and the screen is gorgeous. In-laws have a 48" LG OLED and screen quality is no better (LG make the OLED panels for Hisense, and a lot of other makes including Samsung since last summer). What is better on the in-laws' LG is the built in software; much more polished. However if you just want it to display external sources then that's less relevant.
We have a 48" Hisense OLED, from a Costco bargain last Feb (£599!) and the screen is gorgeous. In-laws have a 48" LG OLED and screen quality is no better (LG make the OLED panels for Hisense, and a lot of other makes including Samsung since last summer). What is better on the in-laws' LG is the built in software; much more polished. However if you just want it to display external sources then that's less relevant.
Alex321
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Coincidently I've just been looking at Hisense. They look to be along the lines of what I'm after.
Thank you for your post, most useful.
Electric_Andy
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I just measured the distance from where I sit to where the TV is. The distance calculator recommended an 86" TV. I find this rather hard to justify - I have a 49" and it's satisfactory at worst. If I had to replace the TV I would get a 55" and that would be an extravagance.
